(Davis, CA) — Brocade partnered with the UC Davis Graduate School of Management for a three-month student project designed by the company’s vice president and treasurer Jean Furter.

The students worked on a challenging proposition for Brocade’s treasury group. In turn they received direction and mentoring from Furter and Brandon Hillstead, a Graduate School of Management ‘09 alumnus and Brocade’s global enterprise risk management coordinator.

The project’s goal was to develop a new theoretical methodology to explore prioritization and risk mitigation investment. This project proved justification for high impact low probability risks. The students presented to a panel of top executives, meet Brocade’s CEO, participate in a Q&A session and conclude with a networking luncheon.

About the UC Davis Graduate School of Management

Dedicated to preparing innovative leaders for global impact, the UC Davis Graduate School of Management is distinguished by world-renowned faculty members, entrepreneurial students, a powerful alumni network and locations in Northern California’s economic and innovation hubs. The School is consistently ranked among the premier business schools in the United States and internationally. The School provides management education to 110 full-time MBA students at the UC Davis campus and more than 450 Working Professional MBA students in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area.

The GSM recently had the opportunity to partner up with Brocade on a specially tailored three-month project for Brocade’s treasury group. Students were tasked with developing a new theoretical methodology to explore prioritization and risk mitigation investment. See the video for a look at the full experience.

The UC Davis MBA Consulting Center brings sponsor companies together with MBA student consultants who work with faculty field study advisors to address critical management problems for large corporations, start-up ventures, non-profits, and government agencies.

Client sponsors who work with us obtain a highly skilled and motivated team of prospective MBAs, who will dig in and help assess and address their critical strategic, market, and operational challenges. These engagements form a significant part of our MBA curriculum, and give our students practical, hands-on consulting experience working in partnership with the sponsor’s management team.

(Davis, Calif.) – With a joint goal of speeding the transfer of new technologies from the laboratory to the commercial marketplace, the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories have announced a new partnership for researchers to develop their entrepreneurial skills.

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(Davis, CA) — The UC Davis Graduate School of Management’s full-time MBA program has been ranked among the top six percent of AACSB International-accredited programs nationwide, according to U.S. News & World Report’s latest graduate business school rankings released today.